#Erasure

DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES

BreeNewsome

Every culture has its own constructs around what constitutes feminine expression. Black women have always had our own expressions of femininity that are specific to our experience and racial appearance

Ekaterine Xia

KatjeXia

I've been feeling this for a while, but since I just spent the last 10 days in bed, I'm especially feeling the hey fellow writers of sci-fi and fantasy, we

Simon Maghakyan

SimonforCO

If Azerbaijan loses, there will be a peace treaty.If the Armenians lose, there will be genocide. This may sound overtly dramatic, unless you are familiar with the region and don’t

♬ ann takamaki is a lesbian ♬

jadevrisrezi

scott pilgrim: you shouldnt idolize scott cause before his development he was a shithead. his arc is about how you shouldnt run from your mistakes and-cishet dudes who only saw

Dr. Rachel Schine is Booing and Hissing

RachelSchine

Ok ok ok I'm back to take something that was pithy and make it excruciatingly pedantic. I've seen multiple people referring to BCE/CE as, in light of what I say

Ozzy

ozzyetomi

It’s #lesbianvisibilityweek! Thank you twitter because I didn’t know this existed. Shoutout to all you wonderful lesbian women especially black lesbians of all intersectionalities, and all the work you have

Jared

tomnooksfatass

The extreme erasure of lesbians and lesbiansm in the LGBT community, a mega thread From erasing lesbian history and the definition of lesbian, to forcing lesbians out of their safe

Lesego Tlhabi

LesegoTlhabi

Coconut Kelz is literally a result of feeling like my white friends couldn’t really be my friends if they don’t care and get involved with issues that affect people that

W. Todd Kaneko

ToddKaneko

The other day, a poet here tweeted about discovering something in a poem they were writing was scientifically disproven and that sounded to me like a writing prompt about fact

loni (they them)

singulathey

latinx is such a painful example of successful erasure. brazillian trans people coined this term, but many people believe the term was coined by academics in the united states. i

Elephant Man

AngryLevantine

Thread timeSomeone asked me not long ago if Ashkenazim self-identifying as Middle Eastern constitutes erasure of Sephardim/Mizrahim.I responded by pointing out that the entire question is absurd. Here's why... African-Americans

Celine Tan

CelineCLTan

Here we go again. Let’s debunk the myth of the terms ‘third world’ & ‘developing countries’. They are emancipatory not derogatory, used to represent a shared historical & contemporary condition

May Peterson, Wicked Witch Girl (she/her)

maidensblade

Actually, no, let’s NOT normalize romances in which the leads don’t end up in a relationship, because there’s already a category which distinguishes that from romance: love story. IOW, let’s

May Peterson, Wicked Witch Girl (she/her)

maidensblade

I wish queer identity discussion made much more room for queer people who can’t and never could hide their identity. We don’t all have the option of passing as cishet

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beagleLegality

Thread of the compelling way JaneJake is a bad ship: Obviously I hc jane as a lesbian so that’s a pretty simple reason I hate the ship, but I’m going

Elephant Man

AngryLevantine

Jews were murdered less than 100 years ago for being, as the Nazis themselves put it, Oriental/Negroid "mongrels". In other words, for not being white.Fast forward to today, the same